We usually think of faith in terms of getting answers to our prayers and receiving from God the things that He alone can provide. And that\u2019s ok. But there\u2019s a more important reason for building up your faith. <\/p>\n
Faith is about pleasing God! \u2018Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.\u2019<\/i> What pleases God? Your faith! What displeases God? Your lack of faith! <\/p>\n
In the past, Christians sometimes described praying passionately as \u2018storming the gates of Heaven\u2019. It was a sincere sentiment, but it wasn\u2019t completely accurate. The battle isn\u2019t between you and Heaven! You have a red-carpet welcome to approach God at any time. \u2018Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews 4:16 NKJV) If there\u2019s a battle, it\u2019s between you and the forces of hell (see Ephesians 6:12\u201318). <\/p>\n
Why are our prayers sometimes not effective? The Bible says, \u2018The Word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews 4:2 NKJV) Yes, God is moved by your needs,<\/i> but He responds to your faith.<\/i> That is why nothing is more important than building up your faith. And how do you do that? \u2018Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.\u2019<\/i> (Romans 10:17 NKJV) It works like this: get into God\u2019s Word, get God\u2019s Word into you, pray, and things will begin to change for the better in your life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We usually think of faith in terms of getting answers to our prayers and receiving from God the things that He alone can provide. And that\u2019s ok. But there\u2019s a more important reason for building up your faith. Faith is about pleasing God! \u2018Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}